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The Cake Eaters is a small-town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. Living in rural America, the Kimbrough family are a conflicted bunch: Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over the recent loss of his wife, Ceci, while hiding a secret ongoing affair for years; Beagle, his youngest son who was left to care for his ailing mother, works in the local high school cafeteria by day but has a burning passion inside that manifests itself through painting street signs; and the eldest son, Guy, has been away from the family for years while pursuing his rock star dream in the big city until the day he learns of his mother's death and that he has missed the funeral.

Upon Guy's return home, relationships between the characters begin to unravel: Beagle's pent up emotions connect with Georgia Kaminski, a terminally ill teenage girl wanting to experience love before it is too late; Easy's long-time affair with Marg, Georgia's eccentric grandmother, is finally exposed to the Kimbrough children; and Guy discovers that in his absence his high school sweetheart, Stephanie, has moved on and started a family of her own. Consequently, The Kimbroughs and Kaminskis manage to establish new beginnings in facing their varied relationships.

In an interview at The Austin Film Festival in 2007, Jayce Bartok, the movie's screenwriter, was asked about the title's meaning. Bartok is quoted as saying, "The Cake Eaters is a term I grew up with in Pennsylvania. My mom used to use it to describe those who had it made, had their lives mapped out for them, were the most likely to succeed… 'The Cake Eaters.' I thought it was an interesting metaphor for this group of misfits who begin the story searching and longing for love, trying to overcome grief, and through the course of the story… find their 'cake.' They find some love, happiness, peace…." The term was widely popularized as a quote from the 1992 film The Mighty Ducks.[2]

The Cake Eaters opened at the Tribeca Film Festival on April 29, 2007, and made the rounds of the independent film circuit, premiering at various film festivals such as Woodstock Film Festival, Lone Star International Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, et al. It was eventually given a very limited theatrical release on March 13, 2009,[3] and debuted on DVD on March 24, 2009.[3]

Not all reception was positive however, with Erin Trahan of the Boston Globe,[10] Gary Goldstein of Los Angeles Times,[11] and Aaron Hillis of Village Voice,[12] among others, giving it negative reviews. Goldstein, in particular, was sharply critical of what he described as "a bland ensemble drama with an unremarkable script."[11]

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Mary Stuart Masterson
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Mary Stuart Masterson is an American actress and director. She has starred in the films At Close Range, Some Kind of Wonderful, Chances Are, Fried Green Tomatoes, Masterson was born in Manhattan, the daughter of writer-director-actor-producer Peter Masterson and singer-actress Carlin Glynn. She has two siblings, Peter, Jr. and Alexandra, as a teen, she attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York with actors Robert Downey, Jr. and Jon Cryer. Later, she attended schools in New York, including eight months studying anthropology at New York University, Mastersons first film appearance was in The Stepford Wives at the age of eight, playing a daughter to her real-life father. Rather than continue her career as a actor, she chose to continue her studies. In 1985, she returned to cinema in Heaven Help Us as Danni and she later starred as the tomboyish drumming Watts in the teenage drama Some Kind of Wonderful. As a result, she is connected with the Brat Pack. The same year Francis Ford Coppola cast her in Gardens of Stone in which she acted with her parents, for her work in that film she received a Best Supporting Actress award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. Masterson continued acting in films and television during the 1990s. In 1991, she starred in Fried Green Tomatoes, a based on the novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe. The film was well-received, with film critic Roger Ebert applauding Mastersons work, the following year she was invited to host Saturday Night Live. In 1993, she played opposite Johnny Depp in Benny & Joon as Joon, in 1994, she acted in Bad Girls, playing Anita Crown, a former prostitute, who joins with three other former prostitutes in traveling the Old West. In 1996, Masterson acted alongside Christian Slater in the romantic drama Bed of Roses, although Masterson carried on her work in the film industry, by 2000 she had made a move towards television. In 2001, she produced her own series, Kate Brasher. In 2004, Masterson starred in the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HBO biographical drama Something the Lord Made, between 2004 and 2007, she made five guest starring appearances on Law & Order, Special Victims Unit as Dr. Rebecca Hendrix. Masterson has narrated several audiobooks, including I See You Everywhere by Julia Glass, Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, The Quckie by James Patterson, in 2001, she began her directing career with a segment titled The Other Side in the television movie On the Edge. Of her move to directing, Masterson said in an interview, When I signed to do this, I wasnt scared but, yes, im already 40, although we dont want to talk about that. In 92, I wrote my first screenplay, which I then was to direct, Masterson has been married three times

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Kristen Stewart
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Kristen Jaymes Stewart is an American actress and model. Born in Los Angeles to parents working in business, Stewart began her acting career in 1997 with uncredited roles. She gained notice in 2002 for playing Jodie Fosters daughter in the thriller Panic Room and she went on to star in Speak, Catch That Kid, Zathura, and Into The Wild, for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received widespread recognition in 2008 for playing Bella Swan in The Twilight Saga film series, Stewart has appeared in a wide variety of films, including Adventureland, The Runaways, Snow White and the Huntsman, On the Road, Camp X-Ray, Still Alice and Equals. She won the BAFTA Rising Star Award in 2010 and was awarded the Milan International Film Festival Award for Best Actress in 2011 for Welcome to the Rileys. She starred in Personal Shopper, written for her by director Olivier Assayras, Stewart was listed as the highest-earning female actress in the Vanity Fair Hollywood Top Earners List of 2010, with an estimated earning of $28.5 million. In 2011, she was named number one on Forbes list of Hollywoods Best Actors for the Buck, Forbes also named her as the highest paid actress in 2012, with total earnings of $34.5 million. She is the face of Chanel and Balenciaga fashion brands, Stewart was born and raised in Los Angeles. Both of her parents work in the entertainment industry and her father, John Stewart, is a stage manager and television producer who has worked for Fox and currently works on Comedy Central show @midnight. Her mother, Jules Mann-Stewart, is originally from Maroochydore, Queensland and she is a script supervisor and has also directed a film, the 2012 prison drama K-11. She has a brother, Cameron B. Stewart, and two adopted brothers, Dana and Taylor, Stewart attended local schools until the seventh grade. As she became involved in acting, she continued her education by correspondence until completing high school. As she grew up with a family who worked behind the camera, Stewart thought she would become a screenwriter/director and she recalled, I never wanted to be the center of attention — I wasnt that I want to be famous, I want to be an actor kid. I never sought out acting, but I always practiced my autograph because I love pens, Id write my name on everything. She began acting at 8, after an agent saw her perform in her elementary schools Christmas play, after auditioning for a year, Stewart gained her first role with a small, nonspeaking part in the Disney Channel TV-movie The Thirteenth Year. Her next film was The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, where she played the ring toss girl and she also appeared in the independent film The Safety of Objects, as the tomboy daughter of a troubled single mother. Stewart also played a tomboy, diabetic daughter of a mother in the film Panic Room

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Aaron Stanford
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Aaron Stanford is an American actor best known for his roles as Pyro in X2 and X-Men, The Last Stand, and Doug in the 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes. From 2010 to 2013, he starred as Birkhoff in Nikita and he currently stars as James Cole on the television series 12 Monkeys, based on the 1995 film of the same name. Stanford was born in Westford, Massachusetts, the son of Judith, an English professor, and Don Stanford and his brother David is a musician. Stanford attended Westford Academy in Westford Massachusetts for high school and met his first acting teacher there and he initially attended the SUNY Purchase, but transferred to Rutgers University Mason Gross School of Arts. He graduated in 2000, magna cum laude, Stanfords first major film role was in the low-budget indie film Tadpole, in which he portrays Oscar Grubman, a precocious 15-year-old with a crush on his stepmother, played by Sigourney Weaver. For this performance he earned a nomination for the Golden Satellite Award, in 2001 and 2002 he appeared multiple times on the television series Third Watch as Russian teen Sergei. In the same year he was named as one of Daily Varietys Top Ten Actors to Watch, in 2004 he appeared in Christopher Shinns play Where Do We Live at the Vineyard Theatre. Stanford also starred as Anthony LaPaglias son in the 2004 film Winter Solstice, director Bryan Singer was impressed with Stanfords performance in Tadpole, and cast him as Pyro in the 2003 blockbuster X2, a sequel to X-Men. He continued the role in the installment, X-Men, The Last Stand. Both movies are based on the Marvel Comics series X-Men, Stanford appeared in the 2006 remake of Wes Cravens The Hills Have Eyes. He also won the One To Watch award at the 2006 Young Hollywood Awards, and in that same year, he starred in the New Hampshire–based comedy, Live Free or Die, playing a wannabe tough-guy criminal named John Rudgate. Aaron also was the actor for Pvt. Polonsky in Call of Duty, World at War, in 2009, he played a troubled poker genius in an episode of Law & Order, Criminal Intents season 8, as well as Horace Cook Jr. in an episode of AMCs acclaimed show Mad Men. In 2010, he joined the CWs Nikita as Birkhoff and his character from the film The Hills Have Eyes appears in the 2012 video game Call of Duty, Black Ops II, Zombies Mode. Stanford plays the role of James Cole in the television adaptation of the movie 12 Monkeys. Official website Aaron Stanford at the Internet Movie Database

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Bruce Dern
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Bruce MacLeish Dern is an American actor, often playing supporting villainous characters of unstable nature. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for Coming Home and he also won the 1983 Silver Bear for Best Actor for That Championship Season, and the 2013 Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for Nebraska. His other film appearances include The Cowboys, Black Sunday, Monster, Dern was born in Chicago, the son of Jean and John Dern, a utility chief and attorney. He grew up in Kenilworth, Illinois and his paternal grandfather, George, was a former Utah governor and Secretary of War. Derns godfather was former Illinois governor and two-time presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson II and his ancestry includes Dutch, English, German and Scottish. He attended The Choate School and the University of Pennsylvania and he starred in the Philadelphia premiere of Waiting for Godot. Dern made an uncredited role in Wild River, as Jack Roper who is so upset with his friend for hitting a woman that he punches himself, in 1964, he played the sailor in a few flashbacks with Marnies mother for Alfred Hitchcocks Marnie. Dern played a murderous rustler in Clint Eastwoods Hang Em High and he also played Asa Watts, a serial killer of Wil Andersen in The Cowboys. John Wayne warned Dern, America will hate you for this, and Dern replied, Yeah, but theyll love me in Berkeley. In 1983, he won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival for That Championship Season. In 2013, Dern won the Best Actor award at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival for Alexander Paynes Nebraska, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actor

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Elizabeth Ashley
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Elizabeth Ashley is an American actress of theatre, film, and television. She has been nominated for three Tony Awards, winning once in 1962 for Take Her, Shes Mine, Ashley was also nominated for the BAFTA and Golden Globe awards for her performance in The Carpetbaggers, and was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1991 for Evening Shade. Elizabeth was a guest on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 24 times, Ashley was born Elizabeth Ann Cole in Ocala, Florida, to Lucille and Arthur Kingman Cole, and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She received Tony nominations for both performances and she appeared on Broadway as Dr. Livingstone in Agnes of God and was a replacement in the role of Mattie Fae during the original Broadway run of August, Osage County. She has been featured in motion pictures over five decades, including early roles in The Carpetbaggers, Ship of Fools. Her other film credits include The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Rancho Deluxe, Coma, Paternity, Dragnet and Vampires Kiss and her most recent film roles were as Diane Freed in Happiness, and as Marg in the 2007 film The Cake Eaters. Having earlier appeared with Burt Reynolds in Paternity in 1981 and as a guest star in his television series B. L, stryker in 1989, Ashley became a cast member of Reynolds next television series, Evening Shade, from 1990–1994 as Aunt Frieda Evans. In 1991, this garnered her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She was originally supposed to appear in the 1995 movie Mallrats, playing the Governor of New Jersey, however, owing to timing issues and her other television appearances include the 1987 miniseries The Two Mrs. She was also featured in 14 episodes of the HBO series Treme as Aunt Mimi, Ashleys autobiography, entitled Actress, Postcards from the Road, was published in a hardcover edition on June 1,1978 by M. Evans & Co. A paperback publication followed on October 12,1979 through Fawcett, thrice divorced, Ashleys first and second husbands were actors James Farentino and George Peppard. The latter was her man in her first movie, The Carpetbaggers

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Duncan Sheik
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Duncan Sheik is an American singer-songwriter and composer. Sheik practices Nichiren Buddhism and is a member of the US branch of the worldwide Buddhist association Soka Gakkai International, playing for other artists, including Liz and Lisa, Sheik also played on His Boy Elroys 1993 album through his connections from fellow Brown alum, Tracee Ellis Ross. He is the brother of Broadway actress Kacie Sheik. The popular track also enjoyed Top 20 success on Adult Contemporary radio, the song garnered a Grammy Award nomination for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. In 1998, Sheik released Humming, an experimental follow-up with string arrangements, in 2001, Sheik released Phantom Moon, a Nick Drake-influenced album which was a collaboration with poet and writer Steven Sater. In 2002, Sheik released Daylight, a brighter, more modern-sounding album which included the singles, On A High, in 2002, Sheik composed original music for the New York Shakespeare Festival production, Twelfth Night. In 2004, Sheik composed the score for A Home at the End of the World, in 2006, Sheik released White Limousine, an album which included companion software on a DVD-ROM to remix individual tracks. In 2006, Sheik wrote the music for Spring Awakening, another collaboration with Sater, written over a period of eight years, the musical, which premiered off-Broadway in New York during the summer, opened on Broadway to critical acclaim later in the fall. Based on the controversial German expressionist play, The Awakening of Spring by Frank Wedekind, in 2008, Sheik was a judge at the 7th annual Independent Music Awards. In 2009, Sheik released Whisper House, an album which provided the score for the musical of the same name. In 2011, Sheik released Covers 80s, which included covers of popular 1980s songs, concert dates in support of the album were later canceled due to Sheik seeking treatment for alcohol addiction. A remixed version of the album was released the following year, in 2012, Sheik wrote Alice By Heart, an adaptation of Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures in Wonderland, along with collaborator Sater. Directed by Jessie Nelson with musical direction by Lance Horne, the musical was workshopped at the Royal National Theatre and commissioned by the National Theatre Connections. In 2013, Sheik wrote the music and lyrics to the adaptation of American Psycho, which opened at the Almeida Theatre in London. That same year, Sheik wrote the music for the adaptation of the novel Because of Winn-Dixie. Dixie was a collaboration with director John Tartaglia and Nell Benjamin, the star is an Irish wolfhound trained and provided by William Berloni Theatrical Animals, Inc. If the show moves to Broadway, it will be the first play with a dog as the lead, in 2015, Sheik wrote the New York stage and film musical thriller Noir, along with collaborator Kyle Jarrow. Inspired by live radio plays and classic film noir, the musical was directed by Rachel Chavkin, in addition, Sheik released a new studio album, titled Legerdemain, in October of this year

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The Mighty Ducks
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The Mighty Ducks is a 1992 American sports comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Herek, starring Emilio Estevez. It was produced by The Kerner Entertainment Company and Avnet–Kerner Productions and it is the first film in the Mighty Ducks trilogy. In the UK, South Africa and Australia, the film was retitled Champions, subsequently, UK home releases are now titled The Mighty Ducks Are the Champions, reflecting both titles, as well as to possibly avoid confusion with the sequel. After successfully defending a client resulting in his 30th win, Bombay is called into his bosss office to be congratulated, regardless, he celebrates by going out drinking and is subsequently arrested for drunken driving. Bombay is sentenced to community service by coaching the local District 5 PeeWee hockey team, Bombay has a history with the sport, although his memories are far from pleasant, Years ago, Bombay was the star player on the Hawks. When Bombay meets the team, he realizes the children have no practice facility, the teams first game with Bombay at the helm is against the Hawks, the team from the snooty suburb of Edina. Reilly is still head coach and remains bitter about Gordons shortcoming in the years earlier. For the next game, Bombay tries to teach his team how to dive, meanwhile, Bombay discovers his old mentor and family friend Hans who owns a nearby sporting goods store, was in attendance. While visiting him, Bombay recalls that he quit playing hockey after losing his father four months before the championship game, Hans encourages him to rekindle his childhood passion. Bombay approaches his boss, the firms co-founder Gerald Ducksworth to sponsor the team, something Ducksworth reluctantly agrees to do, the result is a complete makeover for the team, both in look and in skill. Now playing as the Ducks, they fight to a tie in the next game, the potential of Ducks player Charlie Conway catches Bombays eye, he takes him under his wing and teaches him some of the hockey tactics he used when he played with the Hawks. Bombay learns that, due to redistricting, the player for the Hawks, Adam Banks. He then threatens Reilly into transferring Banks to the Ducks, after hearing an out-of-context quote about them, the Ducks players lose faith in Bombay and revert to their old habits. Left with either the choice of letting his team down or get fired from his job, because of his well-to-do background, Adam is given the nickname Cake Eater by his teammates. The name is, at first, seen as derisive, the Ducks manage to make it to the championship against the Hawks. Despite the Hawks heavy attacks taking Banks out of the game, in exactly the same situation Bombay was at the beginning of the film, Charlie prepares for a penalty shot to win the championship. In stark contrast to former coach Reillys attitude, Bombay tells Charlie that he believe in him no matter what happens. Inspired, Charlie jukes out the goalie with a triple-deke to defeat the Hawks for the state Pee Wee Championship, the Ducks and family race out onto the ice in jubilation, where Bombay thanks Hans for his belief in him and Hans tells Bombay he is proud of him

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Jesse L. Martin
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Jesse L. Martin is an American actor and singer. He is best known for originating the role of Tom Collins on Broadway in the musical Rent and his roles as NYPD Detective Ed Green on Law & Order. Martin, the third of four sons, was born in Rocky Mount and his father, Jesse Reed Watkins, was a truck driver, and his mother, Virginia Price, a college counselor, the two divorced when he was a child. His mother eventually remarried and Martin adopted his stepfathers surname, when Martin was in grade school, the family relocated to Buffalo, New York, but Martin began to dislike speaking because of his Southern accent and was often overcome with shyness. A concerned educator and mentor influenced him to join a drama program. Being from Virginia, the young Martin played the character the way he knew how. The act was a hit, and Martin emerged from his shell, Martin attended high school at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts, where he was voted Most Talented in his senior class. He later enrolled in New York Universitys Tisch School of the Arts theatre program, and while at NYU he was also the president of Rubin Dorm. After graduation, Martin toured the states with John Housemans The Acting Company, finding that auditions, regional theater, and bit parts were no way to support himself, Martin waited tables at several restaurants around the city. He was literally serving a pizza when his appearance on CBSs Guiding Light aired in the same eatery, while the show aired, the whole waitstaff gathered around the bar television to cheer his performance. Often, during the rush, he broke out in song. When he gave his customers their dinner checks, he told them to keep it, Martin made his Broadway debut in Timon of Athens, and then performed in The Government Inspector with Lainie Kazan. While employed at the Moondance Diner, he met the playwright Jonathan Larson, in 1996, Larsons musical Rent took the theatre world by storm, with Martin in the role of gay computer geek/philosophy professor Tom Collins. The 1990s update of Puccinis La Bohème earned six Drama Desk Awards, five Obie Awards, four Tony Awards, in 1998, the West End production of Rent opened with four of the original cast members, including Martin. He played Tad in the album of Bright Lights, Big City. He played the roles of Gratiano and King Polixenes, respectively, the two shows were performed in repertory, beginning with previews on June 9,2010, through to the final performance on August 1,2010. The Merchant of Venice later transferred to Broadway to the Broadhurst Theater for a limited engagement, the show began previews on October 19,2010, and officially opened on November 7. Martin soon landed roles on Foxs short-lived 413 Hope St. Ally McBeals creator, David E. Kelley, attended Rents Broadway premiere and remembered Martin when the show needed a new boyfriend for the title character

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Melissa Leo
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Melissa Chessington Leo is an American actress. After appearing on television shows and films in the 1980s. Kay Howard on the television series Homicide, Life on the Street for the shows first five seasons and she had also previously been a regular on the television shows All My Children and The Young Riders. Leo received critical acclaim for her performance as Ray Eddy in the film Frozen River, earning several nominations and awards, including an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. In 2010, Leo won several awards for her performance as Alice Eklund-Ward in the film The Fighter, including the Golden Globe, SAG, in 1985 she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for her performance on All My Children. In 2013 she won the Emmy Award for her guest-role on the television series Louie and she starred in the 2015 Fox event series Wayward Pines as Nurse Pam. She recently starred in Netflix 2017 film The Most Hated Woman in America as Madalyn Murray OHair the famous atheist, Leo was born in Manhattan, New York City, and spent her early life on the Lower East Side. She is the daughter of Margaret, a California-born teacher, and Arnold Leo III, an editor at Grove Press, fisherman and she has one brother, Erik Leo. Her parents divorced, and her mother moved them to Red Clover Commune, in Putney and her maternal grandparents were Frances and James Chessington, a colonel in the United States Air Force. Her paternal grandparents were Elinore and Arnold Leo II and her uncle was journalist Roger Leo, and her aunt is art historian Christine Leo Roussel. Leo began performing as a child with the Bread and Puppet Theater Company, Leo spent summers at her fathers house in Springs, a section of East Hampton, N. Y. Leos acting debut came in 1984, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy at the Daytime Emmy Awards/12th Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Ingenue/Woman in a Drama Series for All My Children and she also had several appearances on television, most notably her role as Det. Kay Howard on Homicide, Life on the Street until 1997, three years later she reprised her role in the television movie, Homicide, The Movie. After a brief hiatus from acting, Leos breakthrough came three years later in the Alejandro González Iñárritu film,21 Grams released to critical acclaim, Leo appeared in a supporting role alongside Sean Penn, Naomi Watts, Benicio del Toro and Clea DuVall. Leo shared a Best Ensemble Acting award from the Phoenix Film Critics Society in 2003, Leo appeared in supporting roles throughout the 2000s including the film Hide and Seek, the independent film American Gun, both in 2005, and a minor role in the comedy Mr. Woodcock. In 2008, she won the Maverick Actor Award and also the Best Actress award at the Method Fest for Lullaby, critic Roger Ebert backed her for a win, stating, Best Actress, Melissa Leo. What a complete performance, evoking a womans life in a time of economic hardship, the most timely of films, but that isnt reason enough. Following Frozen River, Leo continued to appear in independent films and had a minor role in the 2008 film Righteous Kill with Al Pacino and her Hide and Seek co-star

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Tribeca Film Festival
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The mission of the festival is to enable the international film community and the general public to experience the power of film by redefining the film festival experience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded to celebrate New York City as a filmmaking center. In 2006 and 2007, the Festival received over 8600 film submissions, the Festivals program line-up includes a variety of independent films including documentaries, narrative features and shorts, as well as a program of family-friendly films. The Festival also features panel discussions with personalities in the entertainment world, past artists of the Artists Awards program have included Chuck Close, Alex Katz, and Julian Schnabel. The festival now draws an estimated three million people—including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music—and generates $600 million annually, the inaugural festival launched after 120 days of planning with the help of more than 1,300 volunteers. It was attended by more than 150,000 people and featured several up-and-coming filmmakers, the 2003 festival brought more than 300,000 people. It became one of the venues of the festival, in an effort to serve its mission of bringing independent film to the widest possible audience, in 2006, the Festival expanded its reach in New York City and internationally. In New York City, Tribeca hosted screenings throughout Manhattan as the Festivals 1, internationally, the Festival brought films to the Rome Film Fest. As part of the celebrations in Rome, Tribeca was awarded the first ever Steps and Stars award, presented on the Spanish Steps. A total of 169 feature films and 99 shorts were selected from 4,100 film submissions, the festival featured 90 world premieres, nine international premieres,31 North American premieres,6 U. S. premieres, and 28 New York City premieres. In 2009, Rosenthal, Hatkoff and De Niro were named number 14 on Barrons list of the worlds top 25 philanthropists for their role in regenerating TriBeCas economy after September 11, as of 2010, the festival is run as a business by Tribeca Enterprises. Andrew Essex has been the CEO of Tribeca Enterprises since January,2016, in 2011, L. A. Noire became the first video game to be recognized by the Tribeca Film Festival. com,02.23.2013

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Rotten Tomatoes
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Rotten Tomatoes is an American review aggregator website for film and television. The company was launched in August 1998 by Senh Duong and since January 2010 has been owned by Flixster, in February 2016, Rotten Tomatoes and its parent site Flixster were sold to Comcasts Fandango. Warner Bros. retained a minority stake in the merged entities, since 2007, the websites editor-in-chief has been Matt Atchity. The name, Rotten Tomatoes, derives from the practice of audiences throwing rotten tomatoes when disapproving of a stage performance. From early 2008 to September 2010, Current Television aired the weekly The Rotten Tomatoes Show, featuring hosts, a shorter segment was incorporated into the weekly show, InfoMania, which ended in 2011. In September 2013, the website introduced TV Zone, a section for reviewing scripted TV shows, Rotten Tomatoes was launched on August 12,1998, as a spare-time project by Senh Duong. His goal in creating Rotten Tomatoes was to create a site where people can get access to reviews from a variety of critics in the U. S. As a fan of Jackie Chans, Duong was inspired to create the website after collecting all the reviews of Chans movies as they were being published in the United States, the first movie whose reviews were featured on Rotten Tomatoes was Your Friends & Neighbors. The website was an success, receiving mentions by Netscape, Yahoo. and USA Today within the first week of its launch. They officially launched it on April 1,2000, in June 2004, IGN Entertainment acquired rottentomatoes. com for an undisclosed sum. In September 2005, IGN was bought by News Corps Fox Interactive Media, in January 2010, IGN sold the website to Flixster. The combined reach of both companies is 30 million unique visitors a month across all different platforms, according to the companies, in May 2011, Flixster was acquired by Warner Bros. In early 2009, Current Television launched the version of the web review site. It was hosted by Brett Erlich and Ellen Fox and written by Mark Ganek, the show aired every Thursday at 10,30 EST on the Current TV network. The last episode aired on September 16,2010 and it returned as a much shorter segment of InfoMania, a satirical news show that ended in 2011. By late 2009, the website was designed to enable Rotten Tomatoes users to create, one group, The Golden Oyster Awards, accepted votes of members for different awards, as if in parallel to the better-known Oscars or Golden Globes. When Flixster bought the company, they disbanded the groups, announcing, in the meantime, please use the Forums to continue your conversations about your favorite movie topics. As of February 2011, new community features have been added, for example, users can no longer sort films by fresh ratings from rotten ratings, and vice versa

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Roger Ebert
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Roger Joseph Ebert was an American film critic and historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a critic for the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert became the first film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism, the two verbally sparred and traded humorous barbs while discussing films. They created and trademarked the phrase Two Thumbs Up, used when both hosts gave the film a positive review. After Siskel died in 1999, Ebert continued hosting the show with various co-hosts and then, starting in 2000, Ebert lived with cancer of the thyroid and salivary glands from 2002. This required treatments necessitating the removal of his jaw, which cost him the ability to speak or eat normally. His ability to write remained unimpaired, however, and he continued to publish frequently both online and in print until his death on April 4,2013. Roger Joseph Ebert was born in Urbana, Illinois, the child of Annabel, a bookkeeper, and Walter Harry Ebert. He was raised Roman Catholic, attending St. Marys elementary school and his paternal grandparents were German immigrants and his maternal ancestry was Irish and Dutch. In his senior year, he was president and editor-in-chief of his high school newspaper. In 1958, he won the Illinois High School Association state speech championship in radio speaking, regarding his early influences in film criticism, Ebert wrote in the 1998 parody collection Mad About the Movies, I learned to be a movie critic by reading Mad magazine. Mads parodies made me aware of the machine inside the skin – of the way a movie might look original on the outside, I did not read the magazine, I plundered it for clues to the universe. Pauline Kael lost it at the movies, I lost it at Mad magazine, Ebert began taking classes at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as an early-entrance student, completing his high-school courses while also taking his first university class. After graduating from Urbana High School in 1960, Ebert then attended and received his degree in 1964. As an undergraduate, he was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity, One of the first movie reviews he ever wrote was a review of La Dolce Vita, published in The Daily Illini in October 1961. Ebert spent a semester as a student in the department of English there before attending the University of Cape Town on a Rotary fellowship for a year. He returned from Cape Town to his studies at Illinois for two more semesters and then, after being accepted as a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago. Instead Kogan referred Ebert to the city editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, Jim Hoge and he attended doctoral classes at the University of Chicago while working as a general reporter at the Sun-Times for a year

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Chicago Sun-Times
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The Chicago Sun-Times is a daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois. It is the paper of the Sun-Times Media Group. The Chicago Sun-Times is the oldest continuously published daily newspaper in the city and it began in 1844 as the Chicago Daily Journal, which was the first newspaper to publish the rumor, now believed false, that a cow owned by Catherine OLeary was responsible for the Chicago fire. The Evening Journal, whose West Side building at 17-19 S. Canal was undamaged, in 1929, the newspaper was relaunched as the Chicago Daily Illustrated Times. The modern paper grew out of the 1948 merger of the Chicago Sun, founded December 4,1941 by Marshall Field III, and the Chicago Daily Times. The newspaper was owned by Field Enterprises, controlled by the Marshall Field family, when the Daily News ended its run in 1978, much of its staff, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, were moved to the Sun-Times. During the Field period, the newspaper had a populist, progressive character that leaned Democratic but was independent of the citys Democratic establishment, although the graphic style was urban tabloid, the paper was well regarded for journalistic quality and did not rely on sensational front-page stories. It typically ran articles from the Washington Post/Los Angeles Times wire service, the advice column Ask Ann Landers debuted in 1943. Ann Landers was the pseudonym of staff writer Ruth Crowley, who answered readers letters until 1955, eppie Lederer, sister of Dear Abby columnist Abigail van Buren, assumed the role thereafter as Ann Landers. Kups Column, written by Irv Kupcinet, also made its first appearance in 1943, Jack Olsen joined the Sun-Times as editor-in-chief in 1954, before moving on to Time and Sports Illustrated magazines and authoring true-crime books. Hired as literary editor in 1955 was Hoke Norris, who covered the civil-rights movement for the Sun-Times. Jerome Holtzman became a member of the Chicago Sun sports department after first being a boy for the Daily News in the 1940s. He and Edgar Munzel, another longtime sportswriter for the paper, famed for his World War II exploits, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Bill Mauldin made the Sun-Times his home base in 1962. The following year, Mauldin drew one of his most renowned illustrations, two years out of college, Roger Ebert became a staff writer in 1966, and a year later was named Sun-Times film critic. He continued in this role for the remainder of his life, after the friend wrote a story about it, Grizzard fired Banks. With that, the employees union intervened, a federal arbitrator ruled for Banks and 13 months later. The articles received considerable publicity and acclaim, but a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize met resistance from some who believed the Mirage series represented a form of entrapment. In March 1978, the afternoon publication the Chicago Daily News, sister paper of the Sun-Times

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The New York Times
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The New York Times is an American daily newspaper, founded and continuously published in New York City since September 18,1851, by The New York Times Company. The New York Times has won 119 Pulitzer Prizes, more than any other newspaper, the papers print version in 2013 had the second-largest circulation, behind The Wall Street Journal, and the largest circulation among the metropolitan newspapers in the US. The New York Times is ranked 18th in the world by circulation, following industry trends, its weekday circulation had fallen in 2009 to fewer than one million. Nicknamed The Gray Lady, The New York Times has long been regarded within the industry as a newspaper of record. The New York Times international version, formerly the International Herald Tribune, is now called the New York Times International Edition, the papers motto, All the News Thats Fit to Print, appears in the upper left-hand corner of the front page. On Sunday, The New York Times is supplemented by the Sunday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Times Magazine and T, some other early investors of the company were Edwin B. Morgan and Edward B. We do not believe that everything in Society is either right or exactly wrong, —what is good we desire to preserve and improve, —what is evil, to exterminate. In 1852, the started a western division, The Times of California that arrived whenever a mail boat got to California. However, when local California newspapers came into prominence, the effort failed, the newspaper shortened its name to The New-York Times in 1857. It dropped the hyphen in the city name in the 1890s, One of the earliest public controversies it was involved with was the Mortara Affair, the subject of twenty editorials it published alone. At Newspaper Row, across from City Hall, Henry Raymond, owner and editor of The New York Times, averted the rioters with Gatling guns, in 1869, Raymond died, and George Jones took over as publisher. Tweed offered The New York Times five million dollars to not publish the story, in the 1880s, The New York Times transitioned gradually from editorially supporting Republican Party candidates to becoming more politically independent and analytical. In 1884, the paper supported Democrat Grover Cleveland in his first presidential campaign, while this move cost The New York Times readership among its more progressive and Republican readers, the paper eventually regained most of its lost ground within a few years. However, the newspaper was financially crippled by the Panic of 1893, the paper slowly acquired a reputation for even-handedness and accurate modern reporting, especially by the 1890s under the guidance of Ochs. Under Ochs guidance, continuing and expanding upon the Henry Raymond tradition, The New York Times achieved international scope, circulation, in 1910, the first air delivery of The New York Times to Philadelphia began. The New York Times first trans-Atlantic delivery by air to London occurred in 1919 by dirigible, airplane Edition was sent by plane to Chicago so it could be in the hands of Republican convention delegates by evening. In the 1940s, the extended its breadth and reach. The crossword began appearing regularly in 1942, and the section in 1946

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New York Observer
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The New York Observer was a weekly newspaper published in New York City from 1987 to 2016. As of January 2017, the team is led by Ken Kurson with other writers and editors including Rex Reed, Will Bredderman, Drew Grant, Brady Dale, John Bonazzo, Vinnie Mancuso. The Observer was first published in New York City on September 22,1987, as a newspaper by Arthur L. Carter. In July 2006, the paper was purchased by the American real estate figure Jared Kushner, the paper began its life as a broadsheet, and was then printed in tabloid format every Wednesday, and currently has an exclusively online format. It is headquartered at 1 Whitehall Street in Manhattan, schindler, Michael M. Thomas, Robert Sam Anson, Philip Weiss and Steve Kornacki. Originally, the paper was perhaps best known for publishing Candace Bushnells column on Manhattans social life on which the television series Sex and it was visually distinctive because of its salmon‑colored pages and sketch illustrations, in the style of La Gazzetta dello Sport. Henry Rollins once described it as the curiously pink newspaper, the paper switched to white‑colored paper in 2014. The fourth and longest serving editor for the newspaper, Peter Kaplan, interim editor Tom McGeveran was replaced by Kyle Pope in 2009. Elizabeth Spiers served as editor from 2011 to 2012, followed by interim editor Aaron Gell, in January 2013, publisher Jared Kushner named Ken Kurson, a political consultant, journalist, and author, as the Observers next editor. Observer Media, the parent company, announced recently to readers that the weekly print edition will close. Content will remain available online under the masthead Observer dropping New York. The November 9,2016 issue was the last for the print publication, the discontinuation of the print Observer came the day after Kushners father-in-law, Donald Trump, won the 2016 presidential election, Kushner serves as a senior advisor in the Trump Administration. Kushner transferred his ownership of Observer Medias remaining online assets into a family trust, the New York Observer was also the name of a weekly religious paper founded by Sidney E. Morse in 1823. The publisher and original owner, Arthur Carter, has had other publishing interests, at one time, he was a part‑owner in The East Hampton Star. Carter received a B. A. in French literature from Brown University and he spent 25 years in investment banking until 1981, when he founded the Litchfield County Times in New Milford, Connecticut. He owned it for twenty years until selling to Journal Register Company and he has been an adjunct professor of philosophy and journalism at New York University and is a trustee. In July 2006, Jared Kushner, a 25‑year‑old law student and son of a wealthy New Jersey developer, Charles Kushner, in April 2007 Bob Sommer became president of Observer Media Group, and subsequently served on OMG’s Board of Directors. In January 2017, Jared Kushner announced he would sell his stake to a Kushner family trust, Kushners brother-in-law, Joseph Meyer, who has been the CEO of Observer Media Group since 2013, replaced him as publisher

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The Arizona Republic
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The Arizona Republic is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix. Circulated throughout Arizona, it is the states largest newspaper, since 2000, it has been owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. The newspaper was founded May 19,1890, under the name The Arizona Republican, heard, a Phoenix land and cattle baron, ran the newspaper from 1912 until his death in 1929. The paper was run by two of its top executives, Charles Stauffer and W. Wesley Knorpp, until it was bought by Midwestern newspaper magnate Eugene C. Pulliam, who bought the two Gazettes as well as the Republic, ran all three newspapers until his death in 1975 at the age of 86. A strong period of came under Pulliam, who imprinted the newspaper with his conservative brand of politics. Pulliam was considered one of the business leaders who created the modern Phoenix area as it is known today. Pulliams holding company, Central Newspapers, Inc. as led by Pulliams widow and son, the Phoenix Gazette was closed in 1997 and its staff merged with that of the Republic. The Arizona Business Gazette is still published to this day, in 1998, a weekly section geared towards college students, The Rep, went into circulation. Specialized content is available in the local sections produced for many of the different cities. Central Newspapers was purchased by Gannett in 2000, bringing it into common ownership with USA Today, the Republic and KPNX combine their forces to produce their common local news subscription website, www. azcentral. com. In 2013, it dropped from the daily newspaper in the United States to the twenty-first. On September 25,2015, Mi-Ai Parrish was named Publisher, notable figures include Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist Steve Benson, columnist Laurie Roberts, and Luis Manuel Ortiz, the only Hispanic member of the Arizona Journalism Hall of Fame. One of Arizonas best-known sports writers, Norm Frauenheim, retired in 2008, multiple staff members have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Other staff include photojournalist Michael Schennum, an investigative reporter for the newspaper, Don Bolles, was the victim of a car bombing on June 2,1976, dying eleven days afterward. He had been lured to a meeting in Phoenix in the course of work on a story about corruption in politics and business. Retaliation against his pursuit of organized crime in Arizona is thought to be a motive in the murder, historically, The Republic has tilted conservative editorially. It endorsed President George W. Bush in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, on October 25,2008, the paper endorsed Arizona Senator John McCain for president

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New York Post
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New York Post is an American daily newspaper, primarily distributed in New York City and its surrounding area. It is the 13th-oldest and seventh-most-widely circulated newspaper in the United States, established in 1801 by federalist and Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, it became a respected broadsheet in the 19th century, under the name New York Evening Post. The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format, in 1976, Rupert Murdoch bought Post for US$30.5 million. Since 1993, Post has been owned by News Corporation and its successor, News Corp and its editorial offices are located at 1211 Avenue of the Americas. New York Post, established on November 16,1801 as New-York Evening Post, the Hartford Courant, believed to be the oldest continuously published newspaper, was founded in 1764 as a semi-weekly paper, it did not begin publishing daily until 1836. The New Hampshire Gazette, which has trademarked its claim of being The Nations Oldest Newspaper, was founded in 1756, moreover, since the 1890s it has been published only for weekends. Post was founded by Alexander Hamilton with about US$10,000 from a group of investors in the autumn of 1801 as New-York Evening Post, the meeting at which Hamilton first recruited investors for the new paper took place in the then-country weekend villa that is now Gracie Mansion. Hamilton chose William Coleman as his first editor, the most famous 19th-century New-York Evening Post editor was the poet and abolitionist William Cullen Bryant. So well respected was New-York Evening Post under Bryants editorship, it received praise from the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, in the summer of 1829, Bryant invited William Leggett, the Locofoco Democrat, to write for the paper. There, in addition to literary and drama reviews, Leggett began to write political editorials, leggetts classical liberal philosophy entailed a fierce opposition to central banking, a support for voluntary labor unions, and a dedication to laissez-faire economics. He was a member of the Equal Rights Party, Leggett became a co-owner and editor at Post in 1831, eventually working as sole editor of the newspaper while Bryant traveled in Europe in 1834 through 1835. Another co-owner of the paper was John Bigelow, from 1849 to 1861, he was one of the editors and co-owners of New York Evening Post. In 1881 Henry Villard took control of New-York Evening Post, as well as The Nation, with this acquisition, the paper was managed by the triumvirate of Carl Schurz, Horace White, and Edwin L. Godkin. When Schurz left the paper in 1883, Godkin became editor-in-chief, White became editor-in-chief in 1899, and remained in that role until his retirement in 1903. Villard sold the paper in 1918, after allegations of pro-German sympathies during World War I hurt its circulation. The new owner was Thomas Lamont, a partner in the Wall Street firm of J. P. Morgan & Co. Conservative Cyrus H. K. Curtis—publisher of the Ladies Home Journal—purchased New-York Evening Post in 1924, in 1934, J. David Stern purchased the paper, changed its name to New York Post, and restored its broadsheet size and liberal perspective. In 1939, Dorothy Schiff purchased the paper and her husband, George Backer, was named editor and publisher

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The Boston Globe
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The Boston Globe is an American daily newspaper based in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1872 by Charles H. Taylor, it was held until 1973. The company was acquired in 1993 by The New York Times Company, in 2011, a BostonGlobe. com subscription site was launched. In 2013, the newspaper and websites were purchased by John W. Henry, the Boston Globe has been awarded 26 Pulitzer Prizes since 1966, and its chief print rival is the Boston Herald. The Boston Globe was founded in 1872 by six Boston businessmen, including Charles H. Taylor and Eben Jordan, the first issue was published on March 4,1872, and cost four cents. Originally a morning daily, it began a Sunday edition in 1877, in 1878, The Boston Globe started an afternoon edition called The Boston Evening Globe, which ceased publication in 1979. By the 1890s, The Boston Globe had become a stronghold, in 1964, Tom Winship succeeded his father, Larry Winship, as editor. The younger Winship transformed The Globe from a local paper into a regional paper of national distinction. He served as editor until 1984, during which time the paper won a dozen Pulitzer Prizes, the Boston Globe was a private company until 1973 when it went public under the name Affiliated Publications. It continued to be managed by the descendants of Charles H. Taylor, in 1993, The New York Times Company purchased Affiliated Publications for US$1.1 billion, making The Boston Globe a wholly owned subsidiary of The New York Times parent. The Jordan and Taylor families received substantial New York Times Company stock, Boston. com, the online edition of The Boston Globe, was launched on the World Wide Web in 1995. Consistently ranked among the top ten websites in America, it has won numerous national awards. Under the helm of editor Martin Baron and then Brian McGrory, the Boston Globe is credited with allowing Peter Gammons to start his Notes section on baseball, which has become a mainstay in all major newspapers nationwide. In 2004, Gammons was selected as the 56th recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award for outstanding baseball writing, given by the BBWAA, and was honored at the Baseball Hall of Fame on July 31,2005. In 2007, Charlie Savage, whose reports on President Bushs use of signing statements made national news, the Boston Globe has consistently been ranked in the forefront of American journalism. The Boston Globe hosts 28 blogs covering a variety of topics including Boston sports, local politics, on April 2,2009, The New York Times Company threatened to close the paper if its unions did not agree to $20,000,000 of cost savings. Some of the cost savings include reducing union employees pay by 5%, ending pension contributions, the Boston Globe eliminated the equivalent of fifty full-time jobs, among buy-outs and layoffs, it swept out most of the part-time employees in the editorial sections. The papers other three major unions had agreed to concessions on May 3,2009, after The New York Times Company threatened to give the government 60-days notice that it intended to close the paper

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Los Angeles Times
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The Los Angeles Times, commonly referred to as the Times or LA Times, is a paid daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008, the Times is owned by tronc. The Times was first published on December 4,1881, as the Los Angeles Daily Times under the direction of Nathan Cole Jr. and it was first printed at the Mirror printing plant, owned by Jesse Yarnell and T. J. Unable to pay the bill, Cole and Gardiner turned the paper over to the Mirror Company. Mathes had joined the firm, and it was at his insistence that the Times continued publication, in July 1882, Harrison Gray Otis moved from Santa Barbara to become the papers editor. Otis made the Times a financial success, in an era where newspapers were driven by party politics, the Times was directed at Republican readers. As was typical of newspapers of the time, the Times would sit on stories for several days, historian Kevin Starr wrote that Otis was a businessman capable of manipulating the entire apparatus of politics and public opinion for his own enrichment. Otiss editorial policy was based on civic boosterism, extolling the virtues of Los Angeles, the efforts of the Times to fight local unions led to the October 1,1910 bombing of its headquarters, killing twenty-one people. Two union leaders, James and Joseph McNamara, were charged, the American Federation of Labor hired noted trial attorney Clarence Darrow to represent the brothers, who eventually pleaded guilty. Upon Otiss death in 1917, his son-in-law, Harry Chandler, Harry Chandler was succeeded in 1944 by his son, Norman Chandler, who ran the paper during the rapid growth of post-war Los Angeles. Family members are buried at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery near Paramount Studios, the site also includes a memorial to the Times Building bombing victims. The fourth generation of family publishers, Otis Chandler, held that position from 1960 to 1980, Otis Chandler sought legitimacy and recognition for his familys paper, often forgotten in the power centers of the Northeastern United States due to its geographic and cultural distance. He sought to remake the paper in the model of the nations most respected newspapers, notably The New York Times, believing that the newsroom was the heartbeat of the business, Otis Chandler increased the size and pay of the reporting staff and expanded its national and international reporting. In 1962, the paper joined with the Washington Post to form the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service to syndicate articles from both papers for news organizations. During the 1960s, the paper won four Pulitzer Prizes, more than its previous nine decades combined, eventually the coupon-clipping branches realized that they could make more money investing in something other than newspapers. Under their pressure the companies went public, or split apart, thats the pattern followed over more than a century by the Los Angeles Times under the Chandler family. The papers early history and subsequent transformation was chronicled in an unauthorized history Thinking Big and it has also been the whole or partial subject of nearly thirty dissertations in communications or social science in the past four decades. In 2000, the Tribune Company acquired the Times, placing the paper in co-ownership with then-WB -affiliated KTLA, which Tribune acquired in 1985

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The Village Voice
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The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the countrys first alternative newsweekly. Founded in 1955 by Dan Wolf, Ed Fancher and Norman Mailer, since its founding, The Village Voice has received three Pulitzer Prizes, the National Press Foundation Award and the George Polk Award. Among news sources, The Village Voice is known for its combination of news reporting and arts & culture coverage. The Village Voice has hosted a variety of writers and artists, including writer Ezra Pound, cartoonist Lynda Barry. In addition to daily coverage through its website and a print edition that circulates in New York City. In the 1960s the offices were located at Sheridan Square, then, from the 70s through 1980, at 11th Street and University Place, in 1991 they moved to Cooper Square in the East Village, and in 2013, to the Financial District. John Wilcock wrote a column every week for the papers first ten years, another regular from that period was the cartoonist Kin Platt, who did weekly theatrical caricatures. Other prominent regulars have included Peter Schjeldahl, Ellen Willis, Tom Carson, Wayne Barrett, the Voice has published investigations of New York City politics, as well as reporting on national politics, with arts, culture, music, dance, film, and theater reviews. Writers for the Voice have received three Pulitzer Prizes, in 1981,1986 and 2000, almost since its inception the paper has recognized alternative theater in New York through its Obie Awards. The papers Pazz & Jop music poll, started by Robert Christgau in the early 1970s, is released annually, in 1999, film critic J. Hoberman and film section editor Dennis Lim began a similar Village Voice Film Poll for the year in film. In 2001 the paper sponsored its first music festival, Siren Festival, in 2011, the event moved to the lower tip of Manhattan and re-christened the 4knots Music Festival, a reference to the speed of the East Rivers current. Today, the Voice is known for its support for the civil rights of gays. However, early in its history, the newspaper had a reputation as having an anti-homosexuality slant, while reporting on the Stonewall riots of 1969, the newspaper referred to the riots as The Great Faggot Rebellion. Two reporters, Smith and Truscott, both used the words faggot and dyke in their articles about the riots, the newspaper changed their policy after the GLF petitioned the newspaper to do so. Over time, the Voice has changed its stance, and in 1982, as a testament to the Voices popularity in New York City, the paper is mentioned in the musical Rent during the song La Vie Boheme. The line states To riding your bike midday past the three suits, to fruits, to no absolutes, to Absolut, to choice, to The Village Voice. Seventeen alternative weeklies around the United States are owned by the Voices parent company Village Voice Media, in 2005, the Phoenix alternative weekly chain New Times Media purchased the company and took the Village Voice Media name. After The Village Voice was acquired by New Times Media in 2005, the Voice was then managed by two journalists from Phoenix, Arizona

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Ashland Independent Film Festival
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The Ashland Independent Film Festival is a film festival in Ashland, Oregon, United States that has been presented by the non-profit Southern Oregon Film Society since 2001. Founded by D. W. and Steve Wood, the festival is held each spring over five days at the Varsity Theatre in downtown Ashland, the festival presents international and domestic shorts and features in almost every genre, including drama, comedy, documentary, and animation. Special events and large screenings are held at the Historic Ashland Armory nearby, in 2010, the festival was attended by approximately 6,500 people who purchased 16,800 tickets. Ernest Hardy of the LA Weekly said the festival is “well on its way to being one of my favorite American film festivals, period. It’s the almost-perfect blend of programming, audience and location. ”Upon her visit to the festival, Academy Award winning Actress Helen Hunt that Ashland is a paradise and the film festival is a rich, beautiful thing to be a part of. The festival was awarded this grant in the amount of $17,500 in 2010 for the 2011 festival The 13th Annual Ashland Independent Film Festival is scheduled for April 3-7,2014. Official website Lathrios Film Festival Database - the Lathrios listing for the Ashland Independent Film Festival including a film list and analysis for the event

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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database